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Statistics from the mobile games forum

January 30, 2012

If you missed some of the best figures from the Mobile Games Forum, either because you weren’t there or because you were too busy networking, don’t worry. GAMESbrief has you covered.

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Posted in: Distribution, Events

Tagged with: android, arppu, blackberry, conversion, demographics, handsets, iOS, market share, mobile games, retention, rim, statistics, user behaviour

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Business Masterclass – bring a colleague!

January 26, 2012

Now is your chance to take advantage of the earlybird discount for my next GamesDev Business Masterclass. If you book before 31st January, you can save £50 on your delegate pass. Plus, you can bring colleagues along for half-price with a colleague pass!

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Posted in: Events

Tagged with: business masterclass, masterclasses

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Join My Masterclass in Dublin, but hurry

January 5, 2012

I’m running another masterclass in Dublin next week (Tuesday 10th January). It will be held at the Enterprise Ireland offices in East Point Business Park. Called “How to Make Money from Social Games”, I ran it 8 times last year with great feedback. I’ve left it a little late to announce it, but if you [...]

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Posted in: Events

Tagged with: dublin, masterclass, social games

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The ethics of Free-to-play

December 12, 2011

The ethics of free-to-play are going to be a big issue in 2012. I’ve already written some of my thoughts on the blog, but I also gave a talk at Develop Liverpool on the topic.

It’s also a good primer into free-to-play games as a whole, with ethics added.

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Posted in: Events, Opinion

Tagged with: develop liverpool, ethics, f2p, free-to-play, morality

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Metrics, Benchmarks and buckets of money

December 9, 2011

I was asked to give a talk at Game Connection by Chris Kingsley of Rebellion (well, actually, he asked me to submit a proposal to the advisory board). His main beef: “not enough people put actual numbers in their talks about free-to-play business models”.

I’ve tried very hard to put hard numbers in this one.

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Posted in: Events, Sales

Tagged with: arm youself, benchmarks, forecasts, free-to-play, game connection, metrics, spreadsheet

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Futurebook: How the book industry needs to embrace free and find new ways to make money

December 8, 2011

I gave a 10 minute blip-talk at Futurebook, the Bookseller’s conference on the future of books, on Monday.

It’s all about how to embrace the power of free, while also using the Internet to build long-term, profitable relationships with your biggest fans.

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Posted in: Events, Opinion

Tagged with: books, bookseller, future of publishing, futurebook

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What is Facebook for?

December 5, 2011

The writings are on the wall. Zynga has won Facebook. Facebook is over. And Facebook is very afraid. At the Social Games Summit, it was generally agreed that virality never comes for free anymore, and the rising cost of targeted advertising has made it prohibitively expensive for small start-ups to acquire enough customers on Facebook to make a decent turnover (see Social Games Summit Stats). Nevertheless, Facebook is not going away – this is merely the end of Facebook.com.

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Posted in: Events, Marketing

Tagged with: android, facebook, iOS, kindle fire, mobile games, social games

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